Morning journal and courier., 1887-03-15
FROM ALL QUARTERS. THE BRIDGE GAVE AWAY And A Passenger Train
 Crashes Through. 4 HORROR NEAR BEACON HILL. Six Cars Tumble Into The Chasm. AWFUL SCENES AT THE WRECK. Thirty-Nine Killed And
 Eighty Injured.
AWFUL SCENES AT THE WRECK.
RAILROAD HORROR NEAR BOSTON

RAILROAD HORROR NEAR BOSTON l Six Cars Tumble Through a Bridge on The Boston and Providence Road-A FrfghtfuI Mass of Dead and Iniured- Bodies Jamned In she Wreck at Every Turn-The List of Dead Placed At ThirtyNine and the Injured at Eighty.
 BosToN, March 14-The recent terrible | accident at the White River bridge on the Central Vermont railroad was paralleled to- day and with the exception of the fire feature almost exactly duplicated at Bussey bridge on the Dedham branch Of the Boston and Providence railroad. At White River four cars were thrown from the track upon
 bridge seventy feet above a river and went down with the bridge on the ice below, re- sulting in the death of thirty-two people and the injury of forty more. At Bussey bridge six cars were thrown from the track upon dry bridge forty feet above the highway and with the bridge crashed into the street, re- sulting in the death of according to the latest reports, thirty-two people and the wounding of from forty to sixty more. At White River the engine and two cars passed safely over the bridge, and their occupants escaped as by miracle. At Bussey bridge the engine and three cars passed safely over and their human freight escaped with only 8 jar. The scene of to-day's awful calamity is seven miles south west from Beacon Hill. Between the Forest Hills and Roslindale stations on the Dedham branch South street makes a graceful curve and passes under the railroad, which also curves at that point. The bridge crossed over the highway diagonally at a height of forty feet and was one hundred and fifty feet long. The point is upon the border of the old Bussey farm, now the property of Har- yard college, and the seat of the Arnold Ar botsum.
 At 2 o'clock this morning the workingmen's train consisting of an engine, eight passenger coaches and 8 smoking car left Dedham for Boston. Webster White was the engineer, Conductor Webster N. Drake of Dedham was in charge of the train and was assisted by Conductor Myron w. Tilden of Dedham and MT. Stubbs. Immediately behind the loco motive was passenger car, following it next seven other ordinary day cars, most of them of the old-fashioned type, two at least with cast-iron stoves in the middle of the car and the rear was caught up by the smok- ing car-nine cars in all. Stops were made at Spring street, West Roxbury, Highland Central and Roslindale stations and on leav- ing the last station about three hundred peo- pie were on board, mostly workingmen and women, shop and store girls with lunch bags in hand, chatting and laughing merrily, and few business men. The three forward cars xxyor of fba others. At just 7:15 o'clock the train round ed the curve and passed upon the bridge. The engine had just crossed the last abut- ment when Engineer White felt jar as if the train had struck something. Hastily glancing backward out of his cab window he saw and heard, as did the engineer of that fated Central Vermont train, the rear cars and the bridge falling with a crash into the abyss below. The three cars immedi- | ately following the engine had safely crossed the bridge but had been thrown l from the track. Engineer White at once dis | connected his engine and putting on all the steam possible ran down towards Forest l Hills station. J. H. Lannon, fish dealer, l was driving up from Forest Hills toward the l scene of the disaster when the engine came down the track whistling like mad. The [ engine slowed down at the Forest Hills cross l ing and Lannou stopped his team shouting to ! the engineer "What's the matte1?" ''My train | has gone through Tin bridge telegraph to Boston" was the reply. Lannon went to the l station with the message which was quickly l flashed over the wires. Then he hastened | back to his team and drove up to the wreck, being the first outsider to reach the spot. Arriving at Forest Hills the engineer at once rang in fire alarm which summoned to the i scene the fire departments of Roslfndale, with
 T. from Jamaica Plains. Having thoroughly aroused the surrounding communities and telegraphed the fact of the disaster to the officials in Boston. Engineer White re- mounted his engine and ran back to the wreck where crowds were already gathering. The first three cars, which numbered 52, IS and 28, stood derailed as he had left them The next car, which was SO completely smashed that it's number could not be made out, went to pieces in the most extraordinary and inexplicable way. Its roof went over the body of it went down the abyss forty feet deep and was hurled with such force against the masonry of the abutment that it was smashed into fragments It was in this car which bore the brunt of the shock that the greatest number of casualties took place. The next car, No. 80, also dashed against the abutment, passing partially underneath and partially through the car in advance of it; and the fearful sensations of such plunge
 
 morning newspaper on his way into town were felt by such of the passengers on this car as had consciousness enough left to be aware of anything. The shock left it very badly smashed, but enough of it was there to reveal the old-fashioned cast iron stove standing back upright untouched and intact Here, as elsewhere in the train. there were traces left by the dreadful work of the col lision in plashes of blood left upon the seats and sides. Still another car whose number was indistinguishable followed this and di- rectly behind this car came No. S1, another old-fashioned one which escaped with less damage than any other that went through the bridge, broken central truss of the struc- ture serving the purpose of pinning it in an upright position. Then came car No. S2, which the crash left upon it's side, thoroughly smashed, and at the end the smoking car, which by most extraordinary chance was turned exactly bottom side up and left lying upon it's roof.
 On the roadway under the bridge then in the space of fifteen feet between abutments there were in an instant piled up the debris of six interwoven almost inextricably with the trusses and girders of the iron bridge and within and among which the pas sengers were held fast writhing in dis tress, some of them crushed almost beyond the recognition of the human shape and one or two of them beheaded. None of the other stoves were smashed for Q WOAOc1 ouuCloA1tJ to lSiIito bAo VI SSA Wleh their burning contents and the work of ex- tricating the dead and wounded began. Superintendent Folsom caused several phy- sicians from Boston to be sent out and Abner Alden, station agent at Dedham, had noti- fled the physicians at Dedham, all of whom responded immediately. The ambulances were also despatched from the Massachusetts General and City hospitals with corps of surgeons, who were enabled to render valuable assistance to the wounded. In one of the forward cars and among the
 first passengers to be taken out was young woman whose name has not yet been ascer- tained and whose death-for she was killed outright and terribly mutilated as well-was the most shocking of any of the passengers.
 When ingress was obtained through the smashed car and when the splintered tim
 bers had been sufficiently removed to allow of any work upon the wreck about the first
 body reached was that of this un- fortunate woman, who was pinned down in the car with the face jsmmed between two sills, and in a most shocking condition. That she was alive scene d doubtful, still the body " nnnva6 vvhau xt,t he of har